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Inoculation prompting aims to remove the learning pressure behind an unwanted behavior rather than suppressing the behavior directly, since direct suppression can be routed around.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026
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“And that's removed the learning pressure rather than trying to squash it out,”
“in which case it'll get rooted round.”Play from 32:40Report a misattribution
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